that was when Brooke Fraser was still in , obviously , full flight and those things existed in parallel for many years . With this project SEVEN which is coming out , it was more like I had written these songs with my friends who aren ' t part of Hillsong , and so where did they go ?
Then there were songs that they felt very Brooke-ish . There ' s a song called “ Nineveh ”, which is going to be the second song that we release . That ' s not a Hillsong one , I wrote that song with my friend , Pastor Steven Furtick . That was the first song that came along and I went , " What is this ?" Because it didn ' t feel like Elevation worship , didn ' t feel like Hillsong worship . And so , that was the first song that made me go , " What is this supposed to be ? How does this get expressed into the world ?" This project is the result of that journey .
I don ' t know what happens after this , I ' m just going , this is these group of songs which are very special to me , which came completely by surprise . Here they are , I pray that they serve the church in 2022 this time in history , and we ' ll just see what happens .
[ WM ] Collaborative songwriting is an exciting journey , as is the space where the musicians realize the song and arrangement . The bio mentions that were a number of people involved from a number of different churches . Who were the musical pillars that really elevated the project for you , enabling you to further define what the project became ?
[ Brooke ] I love that you would ask that question because I love talking about the team that made this happen . Because , obviously , when you play the record , it ' s not just the sound of my voice or me playing , there ' s the sound of music . I didn ' t mean to reference the movie , but there ' s a really special group of people that brought this thing to pass . I love talking about them because I ' m obsessed with them . But in the very early days of this when it was still an incredulous question , is this something that ' s supposed to happen ? Scotty , my husband , and I , we were writing with our friend Jason Ingram and I said to Jason , " Do you think I ' m supposed to do something ?" And he was like , " Yes , I do ."
I tucked that in my metaphorical pocket and mused on that for a little bit . Then I think it was the next day we were together again and at the end of the day I said to him , " Jason , if I do something , will you do it with me ? Could we produce it together ?" He said , " Well , I was just saying to my wife ," He ' s like , " I left space for one more thing in the Fall and I didn ' t know what that was , and now I know that it was this ." That was the ignition , I guess , the key turning in the ignition . Then as Jason and I just talked about who we would want involved , who felt like the right people to have involved ?
We were really prayerful the whole way , it was like , " Lord , who is it that you want involved here ? Who is it that is supposed to be involved in this ?" That stuff all became really clear , really quickly . It was really fun as well , because a lot of